postfix won't deliver mail?

mverrilli · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Atlanta, GA

I installed postfix... edited the /etc/postfix/main.cf... restarted the service... I want to be able to receive mail from anywhere on the net. I will worry about spammers right after I get this thing working.

I can send mail just fine, but I can't recieve mail. The mail is received by postfix... I can see it using mailq. It just won't deliver it to my mailbox. :?:

First thing I noticed is telnetting to my port 25 is very slow. I read something about making sure the hostname is right and all, I checked everything and it looks right to me... dunno. I just thought I'd mention it in case that symptom rings a bell.

When I try to flush the mail queue, I run mailq to check it out, and I see: (unknown mail transport error) under some of the emails.

syslog.conf says:

mglauche · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:17 pm Post subject:

make sure postfix knows your domain is local to it, see the mydestination parameter in postfix:

# The mydestination parameter specifies the list of domains that this
# machine considers itself the final destination for. That does not
# include domains that are hosted on this machine. Those domains are
# specified elsewhere (see sample-virtual.cf, and sample-transport.cf).

mverrilli · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Atlanta, GA

right now it is:

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, mail.$mydomain, www.$mydomain, ftp.$mydomain

and I have myhostname set specifically to www.myname.com and mydomain set to myname.com

Kilian · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Canada

You mean litterally or figuratively? If litterly, your problem is that myname.com exists and receives it's own mail... heh. Do you have your own registered domain name? Also, if you have something like dyndns or similar and are using a subdomain on that (mverrilli.iname.net, mverrilli.dyndns.com, etc) keep in mind that you may only receieve mail for your subdomain, and make sure postfix knows this in your local destinations setting.

If that's confusing, just smack me.

mverrilli · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Atlanta, GA

I was hiding the real domain name since it isn't mine.

The machine is on the internal network, port 25 is forwarded from the router to this machine. The ip of the router is the domain name... figuratively, myname.com :p

mverrilli · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Atlanta, GA

Kilian helped offline. Thanks!

1. I noticed my syslogger wasn't running... that would cause my mail log not to show. How I managed that, I have no idea.

(I do remember uninstalling a logger and installing a different one. I might have messed up that way somehow).

2. After the logger was active, I reviewed mail.err... and sure enough... Permission denied on /etc/mail/aliases.db. chowned those files to the postfix group, and all is well.

Thanks for the replies.